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@Rasterman @Suzu @smokescreen
Evangelical Protestantism is basically an offshoot of Southern Baptist movements. A lot of these Protestant denominations are heavily influenced by an absurd bullshit interpretation of the Scriptures, known as "Dispensationalism", which of all ironies was made up by some Anglican moron. The initial purpose of "dispensationalist" thinking was an effort to compromise on the message of the Gospel to try to persuade Jews into converting to Christianity... Needless to say, it didn't work at all, and instead Jews co-opted the message, the Rockefellers financially backed the message and flooded the Baptist and [later] Evangelical spheres with this delusion.

"Dispensationalists" have a very weird view on Salvation and Eschatology, that is completely out of accord with what the Early Church Fathers taught about these matters. "Dispensationalists" basically teach that the Jews still worship the True God, /despite/ Christ's explicit teaching that anyone that rejects Him also rejects God the Father [and therefore will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.] They also believe that the Book of Revelation's talk on a 1000 year kingdom is of a literal earthly kingdom, whereas the developed consensus in the Early Church was that the number was a symbolic representation of the reign of the Church over the whole world.
They think that the Great Tribulation in the Last Days is a trial of suffering and purification for the Jews, as they believe that the Christians will be pre-emptively Raptured before the Beast system is implemented. [The "Pre-Tribulation Rapture" view.]

The overwhelming majority of Evangelical Protestants are, in fact, very naiive, and this sort of nonsense is even believed in academic Evangelical circles. However, concerning the majority of Televangelist Evangelicals, whom preach "Prosperity Gospel", many of 'em don't really believe in what they teach, and see it more as a tool to con gullible people out of money to enrich themselves and spread their own influence.

And that's not even getting into the entangled mess of Evangelicalism being tied in with CIA doctrinal warfare programs and espionage interests. [On that note, the Papacy is also intimately intertwined with CIA doctrinal warfare and espionage programs as well.]

From what I've heard of Brazil, their politics is basically little more than an exaggerated caricaturization of U.S. political ideas, on steroids. It's what happens when you combine North American geopolitical ideology with Latin American machismo and strong-arm enforcement policies.

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